hammer action (continued)

There are so many - infinite - ways of responding to something someone does. Condemning and condoning are often taken as the only options, between which lies that wonderfully convenient no-man's-land: 'not taking a stand'.
Here are some of the other things you can say or do if you happen to come across a man in the street hitting a child on the head with a hammer (hammer action):
- Nothing
- Shut your eyes
- Divert attention from the hammer action, so that no-one else notices
- Tell the child to stop crying
- Tell the man to stop hitting
- Take away the hammer
- Quietly ask the man to move himself, his hammer and the child away from public view
- Make hammers illegal
- Hit the man
- Disperse the crowd gathering around the hammer action
- Make a speech condemning the man
- Make a speech condemning hammer action
- Make a speech condemning children on the streets
- Make a speech about human rights
- Make a citizen's arrest
- Organise an international campaign against hammer action
- Put your head under the hammer